Every time I run RSpec tests, it goes off executing everything. Which is fine, except that I don’t want to wait for the entire suite to run before I see what the one failure early in the series was.
$ rspec spec/
...........F................................
I think this is what you are looking for: http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/making-rspec-stop-operation-immediately-after-failing/
It makes RSpec stop after the first failure.
You should also look at this: http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/fuubar-the-instafailing-rspec-progress-bar-formatter/
It’s a better RSpec formatter.